When International Manufacturing Group Inc. (IMG) began to standardize its computer and Internet procedures six years ago, the going was rough. The company, which has extensive operations in China, found the country's Internet infrastructure so slow and unreliable that e-mails had to be backed up with faxes, and electronically moving CAD data files was out of the question. They were shuttled between countries via three-day airmail. Today, however, the Hillsborough, N.J.-based company considers itself a leader in outsourced product development and manufacturing in China, largely because of its decade-plus presence there but in part because improvements in the communications network in China have enabled IMG to drastically upgrade global Internet-based collaboration.
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